Posts Tagged ‘Wedding’
(English) On the Osloer Strasse
Paul Scraton gives an ex-pat perspective of his neighbourhood of choice: Wedding... I "]It is just past midnight on the Osloer Strasse. I emerge from the U-Bahn station onto the wide, dark boulevard. There are not so many people about. At the corner of Drontheimer Strasse a couple of drunks stagger out from their smoke-filled corner kneipe, bellies full of gassy pilsner and cheap shots of korn. The lights in the kebab stand across the street burn brightly but there are no customers. A [...]
(English) Hauptbahnhof: the non-kiez
Berlin resident Giulia Pines reflects on the strangeness of living in a neighbourhood that's not quite a neighbourhood... How does one write about a neighborhood that is not a neighbourhood? A neighbourhood still so much under construction one cannot even use that well-worn phrase “not so much a neighbourhood as a state of mind” (“not of an age but for all time”?) to describe it? A neighbourhood whose future identity is still so much in question, we are awoken day and night by [...]
Q&A: Nils Frahm, Composer & Musician
A Berlin-based composer with a penchant for piano improvisation Raised on a musical diet of classical and jazz, Nils Frahm started playing the piano as a young student of Nahum Brodski, himself a student of Tchaikovsky’s last protégé. When the budding musician wasn’t hovering over a keyboard, he was sifting through his father’s vast collection of ECM records. Now, aged 27, Frahm has become a masterful improvisational pianist. In December he released his first two [...]
